The Swedish National Board of Education studied 7,095 youths (mostly immigrants) who were compulsory school students in 1978-79 (Grade 9) and who spoke a language other than Swedish at home. The part of the study reported on in this document focused on the students' attitudes toward instruction in the home language and toward courses offering supportive Swedish instruction. Major findings included the following: (1) there were great differences regarding participation in home language instruction between groups with different other home languages; for example, while most of the pupils who spoke Danish, Norwegian, Estonian, German, Hungarian, or English at home never attended home language instruction in compulsory school, only a minority of Greek and Turkish speaking pupils did not receive home language instruction; (2) although pupils speaking Swedish and another language at home need more home language instruction than others in order to remain actively bilingual, most of these students were found not to have attended home language instruction in compulsory school; (3) students' attitudes concerning home language instruction varied, but most who had received it were very satisfied; nonetheless, about a third stated that they were not interested in home language instruction; (4) most students surveyed felt they had received sufficient Swedish instruction; generally, findings in the area of supportive Swedish instruction suggested that young immigrants with a good knowledge of Swedish have a better chance of coping with post-compulsory education; and (5) when questioned one year after they left compulsory school, more than a third of non-Swedish speakers felt they had received too little educational and vocational orientation in their home language. Twelve appendices give tables of grade 9 pupil data using different sets of variables, plus the study questionnaire. (KH)